Isekai Yakkyoku - Vol. 4 Ch. 17.2 - Influenza and the case of a certain pharmacy 2

[MangaDex]

 

[Nick86]

In before a certain ill plague the family of these business burocrats and then they are forced to ask help to the pharmacist to cure them and then medetashi medetashi. <3

 

[IMACOP]

This part of the story seems rather weird. Like seriously, why would you want (dare) to pick a fight with a prominent noble from a powerful and influential noble family that have the backing of royalty with the current monarch being one of the toughest and scariest ever in the history of their country. It's like screaming please kill me now.

 

[PotatoZero]

@IMACOP, uhh, I don't know, perhaps because my life is ruined either way if my business keeps plummeting?

 

[Merilirem]

@IMACOP
Arrogance and a false sense of entitlement. They think they are in the right and while they won't openly oppose them they will scheme just enough that its not worth it for the higher ups to get involved for political reasons.

 

[gaigous]

The Queen is hot as shit, and she knows it.

 

[Kaiser92]

Why mangaka keep making ppl wear hat inside?

 

[pratomoastan]

hmm hmm good good ^^

 

[Vasqueztion]

@IMACOP
To add to what the others were saying: It's also greed. He's selling his effective medicine to not only the nobles, but the commoners, at a vastly cheaper price.
So take noble entitlement, greed, envy, and whatever other bullshit you can think of = you get the Pharmacists Guild.

Why you would cut all ties and boycott the MC's shop is beyond me. Now you can't send spies, nor can you receive information. Should that father have been able to freely speak about what he had seen while there, they would be far better informed about how fucked they truly are.

Something about going against high nobility, that has royal protection that goes all the way to the Queen, the Church's protection, and God powers really paints a painful image for any antagonist.

 

[Sezaru]

This reminds me if good public healthcare enter a market of private healthcare

 

[CelticMutt]

@Kaiser92 - Because whether or not you wear hats indoors is a fashion trend that changes back and forth over time, especially when it comes to public buildings.

 

[Kaiser92]

@CelticMutt lol weird fashion. Thought mangaka was trying to make him look "mysterious" or smt.

 

[cherokeemoon]

Lol that guild fucker better watch out because whatever he delivers to Falma will come back ten fold I bet

 

[IMACOP]

@PotatoZero
@Merilirem
@Vasqueztion

I can understand greed and all, but the problem is they're in an era where the aristocrats can execute commoners with no consequence and while they're scheming behind closed doors, they pretty much announced their hostility out loud.

Take our current world's countries that are still under a monarchy, simply saying the wrong word will see you toss in prison for who knows how many years. Here, in a medieval/renaissance era, they attacked nobility bearing the royal insignia, and all the person got was 'banned for a while'.

I guess I'm finding is weird because they're too dumb, and the consequence of their actions were too lenient.

 

[warriorg]

@IMACOP started a good conversation. I especially liked @Potatozero's perspective, that they're sunk if they don't find some way to win. It's more than entitlement, it's pride from past accomplishments. They haven't bothered to analyze their upstart closely, so they aren't adapting enough since they think their prior methods are enough to win.

 

[boag]

@IMACOP
Its pretty much economics 101, when you make a service for free, you utterly destroy the industry behind it, and leave a gap that cant be filled in.
Heres a real world example, in several African countries, the huge food donations utterly destroyed the farming industry, Why would anyone buy food when they were getting the handouts for free from international organizations, this just left the farmers with no way of getting an income to buy new techonology and resources to improve food production.
What followed is that without the additional production, and people expecting food for free, it created a destabilization around lots of the countries.
Its why Socialism doesnt work, free things cannot be produced in a mass scale.

 

[AdamKnight]

Considering Falma has the backing of the Queen herself, it seems he plan in the long run to use his own pharmacy success as model case and then disseminate certain part of the technique used there to other pharmacist using royal edict. He already use the Queen's authority with mercury ban since its an immediate danger and need to be resolved immediately, and this things cannot be abused too often lest it will bring chaos to the whole system. Other problem are some certain component of his medication is not exactly reproducible (yet) outside his pharmacy since he literally create complex chemicals from nothing and use it as ingredients.

I mean, he literally had A WHOLE FLOOR of those mansion like building marauding as pharmacy dedicated to research to make his medication reproducible by anyone.

 

[monkey123]

This pharmacist guild is so dumb and condescending. Even though they received compensation and some new recipes, they still want to harm the MC.

@gaigous
I know, right? As a milf she looks fairly young.

 

[Aoitenshi]

Still, I can't say Falma's approach in this is correct. Since he has the ability to create something from nothing, he essentially needs 0 costs compared to his peers who require who knows how much money and efforts to concoct a medicine/hogus bogus of the same level.

 

[VladDracul2]

Nevermind the fact that they also see this "venture" of his as nothing more than another way to pass time for these extravagant nobles. They said so before, that in the past other nobles also tried to make their own shops out of boredom and for shit and giggles, only for those stores to go out of business once the naive nobles get a taste of the hardships of the real world outside of their mansions, so having this guy's store flourish (besides the other economical, personal and social facts that previous commenters mentioned) makes them angry because they see him as another capricious noble that, for one reason or the other, seems to be getting lucky and/or abusing his influence.